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Moodie Black’s Lucas Acid is an Unflinching and Powerful Album of Trans Anthems

April 25, 2018 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

Moodie Black Lucas Acid

Late into Moodie Black’s new album Lucas Acid, MB mastermind K Death growls “I ain’t really screaming/There’s no pain” and there’s a good chance you’ll think this is a lie based on what you hear around it. After all, Moodie Black are pioneers of noise rap, a subgenre defined by unholy howls, a scene with cacophony in […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: Electronic, Fake Four, hip-hop, Indie, K Death, Moodie Black, noise rap, punk, Sean Lindahl

Zac Pennington and Brian Lawlor’s Always and Only the Lonely is a Beautiful Examination of Suffering as Art

April 6, 2017 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

Always and Only the Lonely Dorothy K Zac Pennington Brian Lawlor

“We don’t care to be understood, to understand is to lie.” – Implied Violence mission statement The only real constants to avant-pop act Parenthetical Girls were front man Zac Pennington’s melodramatic, ever-reaching vocals and taboo lyrical fixations. Throughout Parenthical Girls’ career, the band shifted line-ups and aesthetics, utilizing ornate instrumentation at first, then wielding increasingly more electronic […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: Brian Lawlor, Implied Violence, Indie, Music, opera, The Dorothy K, Zac Pennington

Champions of Good Times: An Interview with Seattle Duo Sisters

February 14, 2017 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

Sisters Seattle

Sisters have made a name for themselves in the highly competitive Seattle scene with their ambitious  events and athletic approach to music, and their brand new album Drink Champagne is poised to make them break out on a larger level. Impeccably arranged and produced, the lavish album mixes the band’s impressive technical chops with Hall & […]

Filed Under: Features, Interviews Tagged With: Indie, Music, Seattle, Sisters

Hawaiian T-Shirt Make Music for Punching and Dancing on Their New EP

February 6, 2017 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

Hawaiian T-Shirt

The intentions behind Hawaiian T-Shirt’s eponymous new EP are made clear in simple language on their Bandcamp page. This is music “to maybe dance and punch people to and maybe laugh or cry,” covering all the necessary emotional bases: excitement, anger, happiness, sadness. The most important word repeated in that description, though, is “maybe” because […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: Hawaiian T-Shirt, Indie, Music, punk

King Cobra is an Enthralling Examination of the Gay Porn Industry

October 21, 2016 By LoserCityBoss Leave a Comment

King Cobra

A decent number of films exploring the drama of the porn industry have followed in the wake of Boogie Nights, but few of them have matched Paul Thomas Anderson’s knack for highlighting the absurdity and monotony of the industry. Most of the post-Boogie Nights films have either honed in on the natural titilation of the subject […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: Alicia Silverstone, Film, Garrett Clayton, Indie, James Franco, Justin Kelly, Keegan Allen, King Cobra, Molly Ringwald

Exclusive Premiere: Cave People “Small”

October 17, 2016 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

Cave People

Philadelphia indie band Cave People are in the process of releasing their new album Sinning Tree via Stereophonodon Records (preorder it here!) but they were kind enough to come to Loser City with a premiere of their track “Small.” Bridging the low-key poetic melancholy of the Silver Jews and the thick, rugged sounds of Archers of Loaf, […]

Filed Under: Features, News Tagged With: Cave People, Indie, Music, Philadelphia, rock

PUP Come Across as Lovable Juvenile Delinquents on The Dream is Over

June 15, 2016 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

PUP The Dream is Over

Early on in PUP’s new album The Dream is Over, an unnamed woman tells the protagonist he needs to grow up, indicating that the dream that’s over in the album title is one of perpetual adolescence. But as the band’s cacophonous punk anthems and generally fucked up demeanor make clear, that dream isn’t ending peacefully but in […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: Indie, Music, punk, PUP

Albums for When It’s Just You and the Abyss: Low’s Secret Name

May 18, 2016 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

Low Secret Name

There are a lot of things I don’t remember very well from the years in between my mom first being diagnosed with cancer and losing that battle. Because this is the way life so often functions, it’s the years of stability that seem to be the fuzziest, the times she had “beat” her diagnosis and […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Alan Sparhawk, Albums for When It's Just You and the Abyss, Indie, Low, Mimi Parker, Music, Secret Name

Anohni’s Hopelessness is a Gratuitous, Tin-eared Trainwreck

May 12, 2016 By Chris Jones Leave a Comment

Anohni Hopelessness

I have a deep fondness for the work and words of Anohni. Her essay last year about why she chose not to perform at the Oscars was a welcome kick in the ass towards a media event that much of us somehow forget is literally an idolatrous celebration of corporatism and mediocrity; her work with […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: ANOHNI, Indie, Music, Pop

Sales’ Debut LP is the Sound of Longing

May 6, 2016 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

Sales

Funny how we tend to associate moody longing with grey, cold places. Maybe it’s because there is science behind it, as any former Pacific Northwest native can tell you all about the very real effects of Seasonal Affective Disorder. But even people who have never stepped foot in the chilly, rainy climates of Seattle or […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: Indie, indie rock, Music, Sales

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